About the Authors

Wagner Shin Nishitani

wagnersn@if.usp.br (WSN); yiw015@eng.ucsd.edu (YW)

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering & Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, United States of America, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Adriano Mesquita Alencar

Affiliation Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Yingxiao Wang

wagnersn@if.usp.br (WSN); yiw015@eng.ucsd.edu (YW)

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering & Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, United States of America, Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering, Integrative and Molecular Physiology, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering & Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WSN YW. Performed the experiments: WSN. Analyzed the data: WSN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW. Wrote the paper: WSN AMA YW.